The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-29

OahO oCdtb III III OnAJg A0 lCit3 WASA AAon-
mel sat him down upon one of the hot
cushions he had been yelling for, that the
barber had stolen neat march upon him.
The death of Sebastian Pfeiffer, at his
home on Porter street. one day last week,
takes from the service one of the oldest
newsdealers in the city. He had been
serving papers to residents of the Heights
for twenty-five years. His son George
conducts a newspaper and stationery store
on Newark avenue, near the Five Cor aers,
and IS one of the most active men in the
business His elder son, Joseph, supplies
all the newsdealers along Pavonis avenue
and on the heights with their morning
papers every day in the year. He runs two
wagons over his route.
News dealer Conrad Schott saw drunk
en- fellow building fire early yesterday
morning against the house occupied by the
widow of the late Kenneth DiDgwall The
newsdealer saved the building by driving
the tramp away, and scattering the burn
ing embers. One time he saved the
buildings on Summit avenue known as
"The Seven Sisters from obstruction by
a fire that careless servant had started in
a barrel between two of them. The news
dealer was delivering his papers early in
the morning and discovered the blaze at
the opportune moment.
The adjective that in last Sunday morn
ing's edition described the dinner given by
Judge Garretson to some of his friends at
his house lately was scarcely just. The
item was made by a typographical error to
read that the Judge had given a respect
able dinner. 1t had been written a
recherche dinner, and should have been
printed SO. The Judges little social enter
tainments are, of course, always respect
able. They are more. They are feasts to
which only the best are invited, and before
the best only the best is spread. The
guests on this occasion were some of the
leading citizens of the place.
The dissolution of tie partnership exist
ing between the Furst Brothers, the large
dry and fancy goods dealers on Newark
avenue, is a business change of much note
in these parts. Mr. Ayron S. Furst, the
younger of the brothers, goes to Brooklyn
to become partner in the firm of Liebo-
mann Bros, who purchased the store in
Fulton street in which Loeser built up so
monstrous trade. He had been in
or seven years. Mr. Charles Furst thus
becomes again sole owner of the business.
He is one of the most energetic and pro-
"Harry" Whitttemore, son of Mr.. Henry
Whittemore of Sip avenue, was on Van
couvers Island at the time of the great min
ing fire that destroyed over two hundred
lives there six or seven weeks ago. He was
one of a party of brave strangers who, after
all the natives had refused. ventured into
the mine to aid the entombed miners, and
he wrote home vivid picture of the har-
rowing scenes he witnessed. "The mine,
he writes, sis 600 feet deep and about a
mile long. To go down into that was no
foolish trick, for no one was aware how
much more gas had accumulated, and the
mine was burning fiercely and two barrels
of gun powder were in the pit. When we
responded to. the shrieks for help, we went
down and down, till thought there was no
bottom. For two DAYS we passed up dead
men till it seemed as though we would
never get through with the CHASTITY work.
The town at present is in mourning. Not
a house has escaped. The scene of the
people recognizing their dead was terrible,
One of the most trying was woman who
asked one night at the mouth of the pit if
her husband had been found and was he
dead? When told that he was, she asked in
tone as cool as ice, could she look at him?
We took her to the mIne She looked
at him, reached down and kissed him; held
the baby to him and said, kiss papa,
baby! The child kissed the dead lips of
its father. All this time the woman showed
no emotion. The next day she died a raw
ing maniac"
"A FIutter i'm High CoIored Society
The King Bee Club, an organization
composed of prominent colored ladies and
gentlemen. connected with the Salem
Baptist Church of the Heights, gave grand
entertainment In Bergan Hall, on Thurs
day and Friday evenings. The affair at
tracted all the best families in the city,
and the gentlemen in charge showed that